Swear Quotes

They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform. (William Shakespeare)
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. View quote
Mark Twain
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. View quote
Ayn Rand
I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed! View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
Liars are always most disposed to swear. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. View quote
Sydney Smith
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. View quote
Robert Browning
I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes. View quote
Emo Philips
I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. View quote
Langston Hughes
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. View quote
Buster Keaton
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Thomas Jefferson)
The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. View quote
Elie Wiesel
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. View quote
Euripides
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. View quote
William Shakespeare
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. View quote
William Shakespeare
Reason and love are sworn enemies. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Got to keep thatin mind. I'm a ninja now... I swore I'd never freeze up or run away again... AND I WON'T...! View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. (Stephen Chbosky)
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! View quote
Langston Hughes
We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution. View quote
Todd Tiahrt
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade. View quote
John Quincy Adams